Tag Archives: superbugs

Another week has brought another news story about drug-resistant bacteria. This time, the culprit is Klebsiella pneumoniae, or KPC, a nasty little pathogen that has so far eluded most attempts to control or kill it. What makes this latest news especially disquieting is the setting: The NIH announced that KPC has so far killed seven … Continue reading The Superbug that Beat the NIH→

Big news this week: a study published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association found that antibiotics do not offer any significant help against a sinus infection. So now you are wondering: have we all been doing it wrong? Well, yes and no. Last week I discussed the growing menace of drug resistance … Continue reading Antibiotics Can’t Cure a Sinus Infection?→

Longtime readers know that I am not especially prone to alarmism in my writing, but occasionally a situation develops that is empirically dire. Case in point: the rapid spread of so-called superbugs throughout the U.S. and Europe. Superbugs are bacteria that are resistant to almost every form of antibiotic we possess. They arise through simple … Continue reading The Looming Superbug Epidemic→